ADAM HINSHELWOOD felt that only one side were trying to win the match as York City were frustrated to a 0-0 draw with Eastleigh.

York maintained their run of clean sheets and extended their unbeaten run to seven with a goalless stalemate at the LNER Community Stadium, having been frustrated by the visitors after failing to find a breakthrough.

Eastleigh had chances in the first-half as Chris Maguire was denied at close-range from Harrison Male, before Paul McCallum stroked an effort wide after Jake Vokins’ low cross.

York enjoyed a dominant performance in the second 45, with Ollie Pearce coming closest, flicking an effort wide from Dipo Akinyemi’s inviting cross with the goal at his mercy.

Hinshelwood credited Eastleigh for a robust performance in North Yorkshire, but admitted that he felt as if only City were targeting all three points.

“It’s frustrating but it’s not through the want of trying,” Hinshelwood vented.

“In my opinion, there’s only one team that has turned up here today that’s trying to win the game, and one team that didn’t want to get beat.

“They will be delighted with that one point, and we’ve come away a little bit frustrated.

“Full compliment to Eastleigh, they have come and got what they wanted.

“It’s a full compliment to us as a team as well, a team that is up there has come and sat players behind the ball.

“I thought that we created chances, we were patient today and it was an improvement on the Boston game, the Boston game we lost 2-0 and it was very similar.

“We’re going to get that a lot, where teams come and sit back and try to hit us on the counter-attack, it’s frustrating to watch.

“I’m really happy with our players, they kept going, kept to our beliefs and on another day we would have got the goal. We just didn’t manage to do it today.

“I think we’ve got to be positive, we’ve come a very long way in such short space of time.

“It just shows the standards and the expectations of where we have got to, and that’s what I want, I want that kind of pressure.

“It was like a defeat in there afterwards, it’s come quite a distance in such a short space of time.

“We just want to keep driving standards and performances.

“It’s frustrating but we’ve got to give credit to the opposition.

“They’ve come, done their job, kept their clean sheet and have gone away happy.

“That’s going to be the measure now, where teams that are up there want to come here and just get a point.

“We’ve got to find a way and keep working hard to find that little bit of magic.”

Hinshelwood explained his hopes for bringing on Lenell John-Lewis, Callum Harriott, Dan Batty, Alex Hunt and Ricky Aguiar, admitting that he hopes that one of his changes would bring a spark of magic in the second-half.

The York boss admitted: “The fact that we’re getting frustrated now by keeping clean sheets, getting the ball into the final third on lots of occasions, it’s obviously a positive sign.

“We’ll keep on working and it’s like I keep on saying, we’re not the finished article and there is so much more to improve on.

“It’s down to us to keep on working hard and improving.

“You’re going to get that in games, where in the first-half you’re sort of wearing the opposition down a bit, and in the second-half it’s open.

“That was the case today, I’ve seen it with my teams so many times where teams do this, especially when you’re at home and you’ve got to find a way.

“Who’s going to find a way and who’s the players that when a game is like this to just provide that little bit of magic?

“This game, the Aldershot game and the Boston game, we haven’t been able to find it.

“When the games are like that, we need the matchwinners and the guys that are going to give us a little bit of magic, we couldn’t quite find that today.

“We’ve definitely got that in the changing rooms, Ty [Sinclair] found it on Tuesday, Dipo found it at times today and Ollie [Pearce], he’s bitterly disappointed in there.

“Now he’s just getting half-chances but he’s got to take them, he had a similar sort of start last season where he was in and out of the team and didn’t quite get up and running.

“With Ollie, when he gets that couple of goals they will start flowing, but it’s a good quality and it’s down to us to keep on improving.”

Hinshelwood also discussed the home record that City have generated this season, having enjoyed more joy away from the LNER Community Stadium so far.

The City boss confessed that this experience was not new in his managerial career, and urged his side to find a way to break down teams, expecting many more sides to visit North Yorkshire and look to frustrate York.

“I have found that with teams before, where the away record has been as good as the home one.

“It’s because of teams doing a job like today, for the supporters here it is probably new and frustrating to watch.

“I’ve seen it over the years now with my teams and full credit, it’s a completely different feel now when teams come up here.

“They don’t come here thinking that they can win or that they can take us on, they want to just sit back and come away with something.

“We’ve come a long way and we want to keep on improving.”

Hinshelwood named one change from the eleven that defeated Solihull Moors 3-0 in midweek, which was a forced switch, with the injured Ashley Nathaniel-George dropping out for Tyrese Sinclair.

He explained: “I thought that they were so good on Tuesday, it was a really good performance and I thought that they deserved to get another opportunity to show what they can do.

“On Tuesday night we managed to find the finishes, but not through a want of trying, couldn’t find it today.”